Rahul Gandhi to spend time in Congress office, meet people.Congress president Rahul Gandhi will spend time at the party headquarters here twice a week and also interact with the general public once a week, party leaders said.
According to a party leader, Gandhi will spend time in his office at the Congress headquarters every Tuesday and Friday when he is in the national capital and look after the party's work.
"He will speak to the party leaders, l...

17 killed in fire in Bawana industrial area; Delhi govt orders probeAt least 17 people are feared to be dead after a fire broke out in three separate places in Bawana industrial area, Delhi on Saturday. Plastic factory, cracker storage and furnace oil storage in sectors 1, 5 and 3 in the area were gutted in the flames.
All the casualties are said to have been reported from the cracker storage factory, from where the blaze is believed to have started. No casual...

Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan share stage, fuel speculations on star alliance.As megastars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan shared the stage on Wednesday, speculations were rife over the two forging a political alliance.
Amid the recent hype over their political entry, the two actor-turned-politicians were spotted chatting together during the film launch of Kizhakku Africavil Raju in Chennai. The movie is a sequel "in motion capture technology" to AIADMK founder M G Ramachan...

Govt working towards making entire system innovation-friendly to create 'new India', says PM Modi.Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that his government is making efforts to create systems that are innovation-friendly.
Speaking after he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dedicated to the nation a centre for entrepreneurship and technology in Deo Dholera village near Ahmedabad, he said that the motive to establish the iCreate centre was to provide maximum benefit to th...

Minister Rana Gurjit Singh, alleged accused in Punjab sand mine scam, resignsCongress leader Rana Gurjit Singh has resigned from the post of state Power and Irrigation Minister on Monday.
Singh, accused of benefiting from sand mining auction row, resigned after orders from Congress high command.
Sources said party chief Rahul Gandhi asked him to resign after the corruption charges put Congress in the backfoot in the state.
The resignation comes in the wake of the...

Four senior-most SC judges attend court, take up workFour senior-most Supreme Court judges, who had held an unprecedented press conference and raised issue of assignment of cases, today attended court and took up routine work.
The four judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- have taken up their respective business on the first working day of the top court after the January 12 press conference.
In the pres...

Bogi festival: Smoke disrupts flight services in Chennai.Ahead of Pongal festival, at least 12 arriving flights were on Saturday diverted and 30 departing flights were delayed in Chennai due to smoke.
The Chennai International Airport witnessed a massive smoke due to the burning of old articles on Bogi festival. Flight operations, however, have resumed.
Bogi festival, also known as Bhogi, is the first day of the four-day-long Pongal festival.
I...

Mamata Banerjee into cow politics and Brahmin conventions for vote bank: BJP.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday accused West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee of resorting to politics of appeasement for the sake of votes.
“Mamata Banerjee was doing politics of appeasement. She has suddenly changed now. She is organising convention of Brahmins, distributing cows and Gita to people. This is because their aim is only to get votes,” said Kail...

Tamil Nadu bus strike enters eighth day.Chennai: Hundreds of commuters struggled to reach places in Tamil Nadu as the indefinite strike called by transport unions, demanding a pay hike among other things, entered the eighth day on Thursday.
Though the transport department has roped in temporary drivers to resume services in the state, the fleet of buses has not been running at its maximum capacity. Amidst the ongoing statewide strike...

Another Jawaharlal Nehru University student goes missing.After Najeeb Ahmed, another Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student has gone missing.
The student identified as Mukul Jain, a resident of Ghaziabad, is missing since Monday.
Reports said that Mukul, who used to daily commute from Ghaziabad to JNU, didn't return home on Monday, following which his family members started looking for him.
Mukul's kin informed the university authorities, wh...